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VMFA Displays Watercolor Study for St. Paul’s Window
Courtesy of Elizabeth O'Leary, St. Paul's Tour Guide Ministry
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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has recently put on view the 1890 preliminary watercolor study for Moses Leaving the House of Pharaoh, the stained glass window designed by Henry Holiday for St. Paul's (LE3, third lower east window). Commissioned by the Stewart sisters of Brook Hill near Richmond, the window is one of a pair by the prominent British designer that were installed in 1892 in memory of Robert E. Lee.
The watercolor, privately owned, is on loan to the museum until February 2012. The watercolor won't remain on view beyond next February because, as a work on paper, it will have met the conservators' set time limitations regarding periods of light exposure.
Look for the watercolor in the British section of the Sydney and Frances Lewis decorative arts galleries on the museum's third level.
Questions? Contact Bety O'Leary, eoleary@verizon.net.
Tags: lee, stained glass, windows of st. paul's
